First Blog by Chris
I said at our shareholder meeting in June that I would be starting a blog. This forum will become the place where that blog appears.
I’ve long believed that direct communication with management should not just be limited to large institutional investors. Yet the reality is that management of a public company is very limited in what they can say in direct conversations. So we did as all our peers do, primarily communicate through press releases.
On top of that, we have a company to run, products to develop and bring to market, and a business to build to provide real value to our shareholders. So when the idea for this forum was presented to me, I felt that this could be a way to open up our communications, increase transparency, help investors to better value our company, as well as be a counter balance to certain public forums that I believe are frequently misused to spread rumors and questionable information.
So, we are trying to get this going. There will be a learning curve and in the beginning our responses may take some time until they have passed our internal review process.
I hope you’ll participate in this forum. We really are interested in knowing what you think about company-related matters. While I can’t promise that we will respond to every comment or answer every question, I can assure you that the management team will be reading and thinking about and, when appropriate, responding to what’s posted here. As I said, this is an experiment, and we’ll see where the benefits will be.
Cordially,
Chris Stern